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Adult education family consumer sciences simulations
Arctic Survival Activity (For Team-Building, Group Dynamics, and Personality)
This cooperative learning activity pits learners and their groups against survival experts to see if they can survive a plane crash in the arctic. Will they make more sound decisions individually, or as a group? How do groups reach consensus? What sort of identities, personalities, or traits tend to dominate group discussion or group activities? These questions and more lie underneath the surface of a classic and beloved classroom activity!These topics and more are broached in this product, whi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Full Year of U.S. Government and Civics Essentials Bundle
Financial Literacy Checking Assignment (check writing)
This is an assignment to teach students how to write checks and balance a checkbook. It is an interactive Excel Spreadsheet and self scores if the student completes it on the computer.
There are two parts to the assignment. The first part has the students correctly fill out 8 checks based on prompts given to them. The 2nd part uses those 8 checks and other non-check transactions to teach them how to fill out and balance a check register.
Also included is a .pdf printable version of the ass
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Checking Activity / Project w/ Video Instr. Personal Finance / Banking
This approximately 5 class day simulation (assumed 45 minute periods) will teach students all of the basics of managing a checking account with narrated VIDEO instructions for everything along the way (by me; 40+ minutes of video)! You can hand the files and video instructions (.mp4 video file) off to your students and they'll learn how to:- Write Checks- Make Deposits (and endorsements)- Update their check register- Reconcile their account- And as a bonus they'll learn how to work with a spread
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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House Buying Simulation -Financial Literacy & Economics-
Watch the teacher demo video: https://youtu.be/D-BVwLD2ERY Students learn how to buy a house in this realistic interactive simulation.In this project students find an apartment to rent and calculate rent payments over years.Then students find a house to buy and decide if/how to renovate it.They analyze equity gained over years and compare that to the savings if they rented.Curriculum designed by a professional team (teacher, data analyst, and mortgage officer).Simulation includes A scenario stud
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Operation: Fashion Stylist (A Fashion History Culminating Project)
A culminating project for a 20th century fashion history unit of study. Students perform the job of "fashion stylist" for an authentic workplace scenario, completing the research, "shopping" for the wardrobe, then creating mood boards for their assignment. Activity can be posted in an LMS and completed digitally/virtually or can be printed and completed by hand. Both digital and "analog" instructions are included. Activity can be completed in class (five 50-minute class periods) or as homework.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Buying a used car - online research of quality, cost, seller- individual & group
This assignment requires students to do online research on a used car that ideally fits their budget and needs. It employs proven online research tools such as Consumer Reports, Kelly Blue Book, and Carpayment Calculator. For this unit, I purchase a month-long membership to Consumer Reports for $10. Using my email address and password, all of the students in my classes are able to simultaneously access the CR website. This assignment pushes individual students to justify their chosen used car, u
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Basic Budget Planning for Kids or Independents
Managing money can be challenging, whether you are 5 or 55, but having a simple to use plan can make all the difference. Following a basic principle of applying money to categories and planning for everything that comes in to be used effectively to go out will keep you from overspending and creating debt. This plan has the main categories and some of the specifics, with blank lines for items that may be specific to your financial situation. It is also broken into an independent budget planning a
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Personal Checkbook Check Register Project
Great for independent or group work.... as review or assessment. Record an individual person's checks and deposits for May 20xx. Possible talking prompts for each day's event are provided for added topic depth or side work/extra credit.Packet includes: Events that involve checks, cash, auto deposits and drafts, and debit and credit cards. Solution provided. Check Register and 8 blank deposit slips and 21 blank numbered checks for students to customize with their names.Laminate instructions, che
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
MY BEST LIFE - Financial and Life Skills Simulation Game - Part 2 of 3
This is a partial version of MY BEST LIFE - Finance and Life Skills Simulation Game - Part 2 of 3 (Lessons 7 - 15).INTRODUCTIONWhat if you could live multiple lives retaining the hindsight and life lessons you learned along the way? Do you think you could come up with a “BEST” model of your life?That’s the power of My Best Life™! Students get the opportunity to live out life scenarios and see what happens. Along the way, they learn the things most of us did not learn until we were thrust out int
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Real Life Parenting Simulation
This simulation activity is designed to give students a small perspective of what it's like to care for a baby while also balancing other roles/responsibilities. Students partner up and work their way through a "task list" while they care for the RealCare electronic babies(Or similar electronic baby). Teacher Tips: This activity requires the use of the RealCare Electronic Babies or something similar. I typically set mine on the hardest level for the duration of the class period. Or I set it on a
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Income, Expenses, and Choices - Real World Budgeting
This multi-period activity explores the relationship between finances and a person's decision-making in real world scenarios. Students take on a worker profile, create a budget, and make decisions based on their financial situations. Profiles are based on blue collar and white collar jobs. Students will need access to an internet enabled device. Illustrations licensed through Shutterstock.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ethical Minutes Digital Student Book and Journal
Ethical Minutes Digital Student Book and Journal contains materials to reinforce ethics to students that can be interspersed throughout the year or course. Each character trait (11 traits) contains objectives, an introductory activity, definition of the trait as well as the benefits of the trait. There are a variety of activities and SCENARIOS for each trait. A journal of questions is at the end of each trait. The digital pdf student version provides space for students to key in their responses
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Ethical Minutes Teacher Resource Guide & Student Book/Journal Bundle
Financial Tradeoffs Discussion Prompts for Financial Literacy & Personal Finance
Here’s a quick and easy way to incorporate some basic financial literacy and personal finance (along with some critical thinking) into your middle or high school class (grades 7-10).These 8 prompts describe realistic financial situations about work, school, housing, weddings, cars, and retirement. Use them as research prompts, debate topics, or a simple classroom discussion (perfect for those 10-15 minutes you sometimes end up with at the end of a lesson). Only basic math skills and general fina
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
Stock Market Project
These are student instructions and handouts for a stock market unit.
Included:
Instructions on how to use Investopedia's FREE stock market game
A portfolio worksheet for students to track their stocks
A table for students to fill in when researching which stocks to purchase
The unit is intended to last at least 5 weeks and take up about two 45 minute class periods per week.
Lesson plans will need to be developed, and I recommend having at least one prior lesson on the history of the stock mar
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Foods 3: Emergency Food Business Plan
A business plan project for Distance Learning based on the current COVID-19 crisis. This project is for advanced culinary arts classes and it is designed as a final. It allows you to assign this via zoom. It covers:-zoom meetings-basic business design (type of design, business name, what you serve)-research on CDC and Health Department rules and regulations (links not included)-Emergency business plan for adjusting methods to maintain business during "stay-at-home" order-google slides presentati
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Life Skills: Bagging Groceries File Folder Game
Bagging groceries at the grocery store could be difficult for someone who has never done so. I use the activity in my special education classroom as a life skills activity. I use this activity as a folder game, but you can also use this as a center.
Folder Game: (Recommended)
- Cut out all pieces in this download
- Place both bag (not cold and cold) on a manilla folder and laminate.
- Laminate food items separately.
- Place Velcro on back of all food items and within the Not cold and Cold bag
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Employment Application Template
This Employment Application Template may be used by people of any age but is targeted for high school students. It provides a template that teachers may use to assist students in understanding how to complete an employment application while also giving the students a document they can update as they gain additional experience.
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Financial Literacy: An Experiential Journey
This unit will take students on an experiential journey as they find their first career after finishing educational requirements, get that first paycheck, build their first budget (based on said paycheck), use that budget for two (hypothetical) months, learn about debt (the good, the bad, and the ugly) while reflecting on their experiences along the way!This product includes:1 set of 26 Google Slides that students complete throughout the unit "What to Expect" Teacher's guide broken down by slide
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Financial Literacy: An Experiential Journey w/Budget Bliss or Bust GameCards
This bundle combines the Google Slides & Docs as well as the GAME CARDS (printable PDF) to play Budget Bliss or Bust!This unit will take students on an experiential journey as they find their first career after finishing educational requirements, get that first paycheck, build their first budget (based on said paycheck), use that budget for two (hypothetical) months, learn about debt (the good, the bad, and the ugly) while reflecting on their experiences along the way!This product includes:1
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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